Silicon Canals: ‘Hiring refugees is a good idea’
‘Hiring refugees is a good idea’: RefugeeForce re-skills asylum seekers in Europe to Salesforce specialists
by Dennis de Vries June 16, 2021
RefugeeForce Co-founder, Gaspar Rodriguez, was recently interviewed on Silicon Canals about why hiring refugees is a good idea and how Salesforce partners have onboarded program alumni.
"With the rapid growth and outstanding vacancies in the tech industry, finding a job should be a breeze, no? For many people, this is not the case. Several tech academies aim to solve that problem. One of those aims for the group of people that have a particularly tough time finding employment. Amsterdam-based social enterprise RefugeeForce re-skills asylum seekers in the Netherlands towards a SalesForce job.
Reskilling refugees to Salesforce
Gaspar Rodriguez is the director and co-founder of RefugeeForce. He knows how hard it is to arrive in a new country and find a job. “I always moved around to new countries. I found that even for a normal immigrant, it can be incredibly tough.”
Read the full interview here: https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/refugeeforce-salesforce-amsterdam/
